Comments on: Cutting Medicaid payments http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87491 Anonymous Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87491 Well I don't think any doctor ever sees anybody in a nursing home. So 7.00 sounds pretty good when you aren't actually going there, just documenting that you are. Well I don’t think any doctor ever sees anybody in a nursing home. So 7.00 sounds pretty good when you aren’t actually going there, just documenting that you are.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87487 Anonymous Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87487 For seven bucks, why do you bother? Why does anyone? You can't cover travel for that.<br/><br/>.......suddenly feeling rich as Croesus with my twenty-nine bucks...... For seven bucks, why do you bother? Why does anyone? You can’t cover travel for that.

…….suddenly feeling rich as Croesus with my twenty-nine bucks……

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87477 Anonymous Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87477 seeing a medicaid patient in NY, in a nursing home, reimburses $7.<br/><br/>That's right, SEVEN BUCKS. <br/><br/>That's right, in 2008, seven dollars.<br/><br/>That's for someone who had a hemorrhagic stroke, now with peg feeds, trach care, ten meds, & twenty nursing orders. seeing a medicaid patient in NY, in a nursing home, reimburses $7.

That's right, SEVEN BUCKS.

That's right, in 2008, seven dollars.

That's for someone who had a hemorrhagic stroke, now with peg feeds, trach care, ten meds, & twenty nursing orders.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87470 Anonymous Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87470 Just got a Medicaid payment for hospital care on a Medicaid patient.<br/><br/>My fees are set by our best-paying insurance. The hospital care on this certain day was $165. <br/><br/>So the better private insurances would have paid that. Not-so-good insurances, ten or twenty less.<br/><br/>Our Medicaid paid $29<br/><br/>Twenty-nine dollars. That's what they allowed.<br/><br/>And you wonder why docs don't sign up. I tell patients, frankly anybody who asks. If I opened my practice to Medicaid I'd go bankrupt.<br/><br/>Even if I worked for free, I would not be able to pay the rent, utilities and pay staff on Medicaid payment. Just got a Medicaid payment for hospital care on a Medicaid patient.

My fees are set by our best-paying insurance. The hospital care on this certain day was $165.

So the better private insurances would have paid that. Not-so-good insurances, ten or twenty less.

Our Medicaid paid $29

Twenty-nine dollars. That’s what they allowed.

And you wonder why docs don’t sign up. I tell patients, frankly anybody who asks. If I opened my practice to Medicaid I’d go bankrupt.

Even if I worked for free, I would not be able to pay the rent, utilities and pay staff on Medicaid payment.

]]> By: Dr. Valhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87467 Dr. Val Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/09/cutting-medicaid-payments.html#comment-87467 Well, I suppose if people die sooner due to lack of care it might save money. Maybe that's what the wonks were thinking? Well, I suppose if people die sooner due to lack of care it might save money. Maybe that’s what the wonks were thinking?

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